ProjectBites LIVE! (Virtual)
ProjectBites LIVE! | Virtual Event
PMI Alaska Chapter
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 1 Hour | Free for Members
8:00am – 9:00am ET, 9:00am-10:00am AK, 9:30am -10:30am NT, 7:00am-8:00am CT, 6:00am-7:00am – MT, 5:00am-6:00am – PT
Speaker Bios
Tanya Dent
Tanya Dent is a leader in Continuous Improvement (CI) and business transformation, currently serving as a Business Transformation Lead at a major utility. She brings experience in driving change and fostering hybrid ways of working to streamline processes and improve team collaboration. Tanya is the President-Elect of the Nova Scotia Chapter and been on the board since 2017, contributing in roles ranging from Communications, Events and Operations.
At the utility, Tanya leads initiatives that integrate CI and transformation principles to address challenges with an agile “ish” perspective, optimizing processes to achieve better business outcomes. Over the last four years on the PMINS board, Tanya has introduced improvements that have unified the board into a more cohesive and efficient team, recognizing that continuous improvement never ends. She has earned her PMP and various micro-credentials in transformation and change, further solidifying her expertise in these areas.
Tanya is passionate about helping boards recognize that if they don’t take care of themselves, they cannot effectively take care of their members. Helping chapters reduce chaos, foster collaboration, and achieve improvement. Her work involves delivering conference talks, facilitating workshops, and speaking engagements that guide leaders through their unique journeys, centred on incremental improvements focusing on process and people.
Ori Schibi
Ori Schibi, has over 25 years’ experience providing practical new ways of leading sustainable change through ambiguous conditions, managing projects and programs and helping organizations maximize the benefits from agile. As a visionary thought leader, Ori introduces practical ideas in areas related to project sponsorship, project management offices, connecting change initiatives to projects, and collaboration — within and across — projects. Ori has been engaged in ensuring that agile rollouts take place in the context of the organizational change they introduce — to ensure alignment and success.
Large to mid-sized organizations (including telecoms, financial services, pharmaceuticals, entertainment and aerospace) have benefited from Ori’s innovative approach to value creation, efficiencies, collaboration and focusing on customer satisfaction (including Disney, Marriott, Phillips, and Amex). Ori also has extensive international public service experience at multiple level (such as levels of government in Canada, the United States and UNHCR).
Ori is the author of four books. He has developed a line of dynamic and innovative workshops and programs and has led sessions, delivered keynotes and taught thousands of participants in multiple settings. He is known for his unique, dynamic and capturing style, and for his high impact, real life, easy to understand examples.
PDUs: 1 PDU
Event Time
8:00am – 9:00am ET, 9:00am-10:00am AK, 9:30am -10:30am NT, 7:00am-8:00am CT, 6:00am-7:00am – MT, 5:00am-6:00am – PT
